Editing Great Plains (section)

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The term "Western Plains" is used to describe the [[ecoregion]] of the Great Plains,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lockwood |first1=Jeffrey A. |last2=Schell |first2=Scott P. |title=Outbreak Dynamics of Rangeland Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the Western Plains Ecoregion: Eruptive, Gradient, Both, or Neither? |journal=[[Journal of Orthoptera Research]] |publisher=Orthopterists' Society |issue=4 |year=1995 |issn=1082-6467 |jstor=3503456 |pages=35–48 |doi=10.2307/3503456 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3503456 |access-date=October 3, 2021 |archive-date=October 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003081847/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3503456 |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name=wildflowers>{{cite book |title=Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide |isbn=978-0803219052 |quote=Stretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse |last1=Kirkpatrick |first1=Zoe Merriman |date=September 2008 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press}}</ref> or alternatively the western portion of the Great Plains.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Entwisle |first1=Barbara |last2=Stern |first2=Paul C |last3=Environment |first3=the |title=Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains |website=NCBI Bookshelf |date=February 3, 2003 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22969/ |access-date=October 3, 2021 |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927174909/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22969/ |url-status=live }}</ref>